everything from feeling terror & dread to having awe & reverent respect - something that you don't already

distress and persecution I turn my eyes to the heavens and confidently await as judge the very One who has already

One cannot take on the penalty for another that they already owe themselves.

Today we turn to the third type of soil, the one already filled with thorns.

people in a godly manner about this grace of God,  to give God the glory and to humble all pride,  and yet Yet notice that God doesn't just simply bestow salvation upon all, but He conditions it upon their repentance

Nobody is forced to reject Christ - it's they're own fault for doing so, yet those who've been delivered Yet even though you owe your life to God's gift of grace which you've passively received, Paul gives

17       But I am  poor and needy; Yet  the L ORD thinks upon me. lifts us up out of one horrible pit, and we celebrate our salvation within the great assembly, but yet

Yet most of the other English translations use the words obey your leaders. Yet, as is often the case when translations pick totally different words, both renderings are valid. Are you ready and willing to offer full obedience to whoever happens to win the elections?

Just as Jesus' lifeless body was made to live again after it had already been sealed in a tomb, so too

We are directed to not steal, yet the object of that theft is not defined. Robbing a bank is clearly theft, yet there are other ways that people steal that are not as obvious.